Leila Janah Quotes

The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn't considered 'sexy' among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

When I was a kid in junior high, I had an assignment to discuss how to rescue poor people in India. I remember my teacher at the time considered it an impossible problem. Now, we're not talking that way anymore. We're sure not talking about that for China. They're rescuing themselves thanks to globalization.

The only way really to influence countries, in terms of poverty, is to get them to change their policies and get them to understand what the issues are.

Merely slogans and statements will not remove poverty.

We spend billions on international aid annually, but we don't find ways to connect people to dignified work. I realized that if we don't think about ways to harness private capital to solve problems, we're leaving large amounts of money on the table and doing ourselves a disservice.

My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.

My main aim is poverty reduction in the state.

Rather than engineering our economies solely to maximise GDP, Africa's business and political leaders must build economies explicitly designed to end poverty and inequality.

Britain's generosity in the world has allowed us to help the poorest countries to get on the road to industrialisation through economic development and private sector investment in the world's most difficult frontier markets, where jobs and economic opportunities are desperately needed.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.

There has long been a debate in the aid community and in Africa about how to most effectively help situations of poverty in developing nations and underprivileged communities.

Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies so that the growth creates good jobs, especially for young people, especially for women, especially for the poorest who have been excluded from the economic system.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation.

If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the vast majority of jobs in the world, and social protection only goes so far.